Are religious people who study any science or believe in approaching things in a scientific way hypocrites?
If you study Science then you would know that there is a reasoning for why things happen. So why would you still believe in ‘god’ when there is nothing scientific about that at all? Hypocrite?
I would have to say no, and even if they were hypocrites it’s not like the rest of us are any different.
We are all humans and we aren’t perfect so we will have flaws including being hypocritical sometimes.
Now as for God not being proved by science your just going to have to understand spirituality isn’t scientific.
They are two different mediums so of course you can’t prove God with science.
Scientist aren’t supposed to prove or disprove God, it’s not in their job description.
So if your waiting for scientist to prove God you will be waiting a while, that’s like asking an historian to cure cancer.
People who have careers in the field of science and are theist understand their profession is separate from their beliefs.
Not to mention a scientist isn’t a scientist 24 hours a day.
They aren’t going to apply the scientific method to every decision they make in their lives.
If they tried to do that it would be quite tedious trying to live a normal life.
Could you imagine a scientist testing out every chair she sat on to make sure it had the right density and foundation to support her weight?
Or if a chemist constantly tested the ph balance of every beverage they drank to make sure it wasn’t too acidic?
No, because trying to do everything scientifically and logically will eventually lead to illogical behavior.
Beliefs aren’t bound to people with certain jobs or IQ’s, we all have our reasons for our beliefs.
A persons profession doesn’t make them ineligible for practicing a spiritual philosophy.
Peace and Blessings = )
November 22nd, 2009 at 5:37 am
all people in the world can be hypocrites
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November 22nd, 2009 at 6:17 am
Yes. In most cases, science and religion are incompatible.
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November 22nd, 2009 at 6:37 am
asalaam aleikum
not necessarily. I used to be an atheist and the more I studied the universe, evolution, anthropology, etc…the more I believed in God. why? because I can’t imagine, for the life of me, that the intricate and complex universe and our earth came into existance for no reason at all. I think the universe is absolutley beautiful. I believe in God because I studied science.
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November 22nd, 2009 at 7:19 am
No not at all…
There is nothing wrong with scientifically observing what a person credits to God…
Just because you have not obtained the proof you want regarding God’s hand in what we see here does not mean He is not responsible for it.
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November 22nd, 2009 at 7:42 am
I am a hypocrite….. You’re a hypocrite…… Not a person breaths who does not have that part of themselves to fight day by day…. soooo, what is your point ???? go in peace…. God bless
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November 22nd, 2009 at 8:02 am
So the following were hypocrites?
Robert Boyle – scientist and chemist
Michael Faraday – physicist, formulated laws electromagnetic induction.
James Joule – science of thermodynamics
William Thompson a.k.a. Lord Kelvin – thermodynamics and the Kelvin, temperature scale
Johannes Kepler – laws of planetary motion (more on Kepler)
Carl Linnaeus – botanist, professor
Matthew Maury – leading scientist in oceanography and hydrography
James Clerk Maxwell – electromagnetic theory
Samuel F.B. Morse – invented the telegraph, Morse code is named after him
Isaac Newton – laws of gravity, motion and calculus
Blaise Pascal – invented early calculator, helped discover the theory of probability
Louis Pasteur – invented vaccination, immunization and pasteurization
Sir Henry Rawlinson – archaeologist
George Stokes – physicist and mathematician
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November 22nd, 2009 at 8:50 am
they don’t contradict each other (if both are done right which most people dont). science is fine when in it’s place.
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November 22nd, 2009 at 9:34 am
The idea that the universe is (1) eternal or (2) created itself opposes many scientific laws. I was in physics class just the other day and my professor said that every physical process we know of that can create matter alse creates an equal amount of anti-matter. He said that one of the great physics problems that should be solved in our generation is where all the anti-matter went after the big-bang. Here’s my suggestion, maybe the big-bang didn’t happen. Maybe God created the universe.
One cannot prove God’s existence by science. But I would ask anyone to prove that big-bang by science. It simply can’t be done.
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November 22nd, 2009 at 9:39 am
So why can’t God work thru scientific principles?
Just because we don’t know how all the "miracles" of God work doesnt mean he is just poofing things.
You can believe that God and science works hand in hand because there is no reason why a God, that knows all, wouldn’t know how everything worked scientifically and how to manipulate all of the elements to do things we would consider miraculous.
It also doesnt take away from God to believe that he would do things in a scientific way.
Nobody, in science or religion, can explain how everything works right now, or how the first of anything started.
There is sooooo much we dont know.
We know not even the tiniest fraction of what we would consider scientific explanations for the world around us or even our existence.
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November 22nd, 2009 at 10:03 am
I think so, for we all know that science is a liberal government conspiracy.
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November 22nd, 2009 at 10:09 am
well you probably perceive a person as being a hypocrite if they can reconcile both, but at least for me science almost solidifies my faith and vice versa. So guess in your eyes I am a Hypocrite, just like I perceive you as being a jackass. I WIN
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November 22nd, 2009 at 10:20 am
I did Science in my first go round at University, and worked as a military scientific/engineering technologist. I was Christian the whole time. After I retired, I went back to school and earned a degree in Theology.
I am not a hypocrite.
However, I did come to understand that the two disciplines are very different. You need the right tools to do the job. It is very difficult to study Theology using Science, or to study Science using Theology. They think and act in different ways. There is cross over, but the fields are really quite different.
It would be much like a cook and a mechanic trading tools. You could still do stuff, but not well.
Also, many very advanced scientists and mathematicians, in particular cosmologists (macro scale), and sub-atomic physicists (micro scale) often become religious as they pursue their studies. It turns out that very complex math seems to point to God in ways us mere mortals cannot understand. I have heard this over and over again from the ones I have met and talked to. They come to believe in God – simply in the math.
But, people that try to use the wrong tool end up in trouble. You cannot use the Bible to talk about dinosaurs, and you cannot use science to give the meaning of life. It simply doesn’t work.
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November 22nd, 2009 at 10:27 am
I would have to say no, and even if they were hypocrites it’s not like the rest of us are any different.
We are all humans and we aren’t perfect so we will have flaws including being hypocritical sometimes.
Now as for God not being proved by science your just going to have to understand spirituality isn’t scientific.
They are two different mediums so of course you can’t prove God with science.
Scientist aren’t supposed to prove or disprove God, it’s not in their job description.
So if your waiting for scientist to prove God you will be waiting a while, that’s like asking an historian to cure cancer.
People who have careers in the field of science and are theist understand their profession is separate from their beliefs.
Not to mention a scientist isn’t a scientist 24 hours a day.
They aren’t going to apply the scientific method to every decision they make in their lives.
If they tried to do that it would be quite tedious trying to live a normal life.
Could you imagine a scientist testing out every chair she sat on to make sure it had the right density and foundation to support her weight?
Or if a chemist constantly tested the ph balance of every beverage they drank to make sure it wasn’t too acidic?
No, because trying to do everything scientifically and logically will eventually lead to illogical behavior.
Beliefs aren’t bound to people with certain jobs or IQ’s, we all have our reasons for our beliefs.
A persons profession doesn’t make them ineligible for practicing a spiritual philosophy.
Peace and Blessings = )
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November 22nd, 2009 at 10:54 am
I have studied lots of science. My job is applying scientific principles to solve problems and make things. There are many capable scientists who believe in god.
Why do you think there is nothing scientific about god?
Can science demonstrate that there is no god?
Science is a great tool for learning about the how things work in our universe, but it is not necessarily the only tool.
Science has not proven to be useful at all in explaining the WHY of things in the universe.
Since I see no conflict at all in learning from deitty what deity will teach and from science what science will teach, I see no hypocrisy. Truth is truth wherever it comes from. It is often hard to recognize it.
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November 22nd, 2009 at 11:32 am
Look some people say, there’s no explanation to how we got here, why we are here. That is pretty much correct for now. In a few hundred years we might know, but now, we do not and can not know how we got here.
Some people take the road of spirituality and religion and give themselves up and say there is a "higher power". There’s a section of the brain that wants to believe in the super-natural. It usually occurs in people over lower intelligence levels (No I’m serious, this is a fact not me bashing religious people)
Some people take the road of saying everything is natural and all supposed supernatural processes up to date can be explained by natural processes. Some people just say it is what it is and there was no higher power, because who created him, and so on and so on so why can’t we skip the whole gods deal and go straight to plants and people. That’s another take.
I don’t find it hypocritical. Religion and science are mutually exclusive most of the time, but it’s just another explanation. After all, none of us know, right? Hell, there could be a God. But we don’t know. A bunch of old dudes who wrote a very old and mostly fictional book can’t be the ones who tell us about God.
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